Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Quotations
Dream
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-Carl Gustav Jung
In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight.
-Sayo Masuda
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more intelligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
-Erich Fromm
Judge your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
-William James
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of what-if.
-Dodinsky
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
-Gail Godwin
